Example sentences for: lightweight

How can you use “lightweight” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Safire didn't go so far as to propose that Bush win tonight's debate, but he wondered whether Bush might be criticized for something other than being a lightweight.

  • Each chapter concludes with Notes and Suggested Further Reading, and from the fairly sophisticated materials listed, one is not deluded into thinking that this is a lightweight work.

  • Turning to Mr. Lawrence's remark that featherweight should precede lightweight , my listing them in the reverse order was done randomly and in no way implied how much a boxer or wrestler weighed.

  • First of all, he name-drops so often even Dick Cavett is embarrassed for him, and his commentary is so lightweight it makes our exchanges in "Breakfast Table" read like a dialogue between Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Plato.

  • Yet, among top-flight evolutionary biologists, Gould is considered a pest--not just a lightweight, but an actively muddled man who has warped the public's understanding of Darwinism.


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